WIML

The Polish Journal of Aviation Medicine, Bioengineering and Psychology

Kwartalnik Polskiego Towarzystwa Medycyny Lotniczej

2019, Volume 25, Issue 3

OCULAR PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH AIR TRAVELING


MAREK PROST1, KRZYSZTOF KOWALCZUK2, JAROMIR WASYLUK1
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1Department of Ophthalmology, Military Institute of Aviation Medicine
2Department of Simulator Studies and Aeromedical Training, Military Institute of Aviation Medicine


Autor korenspondencyjny: MAREK PROST; Department of Ophthalmology, Military Institute of Aviation Medicine; email: marekprost@wp.pl


DOI: 10.13174/pjambp.19.05.2021.03

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Abstract: Air transport is the most dynamically developing branch of transport and the number of services provided by civil aviation is increasing from year to year. However, the conditions in the passenger cabin during the flight differ from those on the ground. The aim of this report is to discuss how the changed environment in the cabin affects the visual system, where eye disorders can cause or exacerbate existing ones and in which diseases traveling by air is contraindicated. Air traveling is generally safe for most passengers with eye diseases, but may cause exacerbation of some diseases of the eye and is contraindicated after some vitreoretinal operations and in the case of ischemic changes of the retina and optic nerve.


Słowa kluczowe

eye diseases, air travelling, flight contraindications